Sat Feb 09, 2013 at 14:18:21 PM EST

Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. We moved into an apartment and now have a pootie, named Princess Ashley; however I grew up with both cats & dogs and I love both. I do not discriminate against any animal & love animal photos of all kinds. Please enjoy the following and add any photos that you think the community would like to see. Now, enjoy the photos & have some fun.

bathe one... he had ringworm!! So I had to use a special shampoo and bathe him twice weekly.

Thankfully it's when he was a kitten, and he didn't struggle much. Even if I were to bathe him now (full grown), I think he'd be okay. But he's pretty good about these kinds of things.

And then when Kitten arrived all filthy and covered in grease, I had to bathe him, too! Gah. Dumbly, I should have thought to clip his nails. But he was just a kitten, too... although I do still have one particularly visible scar from that episode. After washing him like 3 times, he was pretty exhausted and let me do what I needed to do. But I know I could NEVER give him a bath now!

Someone poured gasoline on my parent's Siamese. He came streaking home, in great pain, so Daddy and I bathed him immediately before taking him to the vet.

Growing up, almost everyone had both cats and dogs, and none of them were fenced in or housebound. We had a large poodle who napped in the middle of the street (when he wasn't sleeping on top of Daddy's car) and people carefully drove around him.

I can't imagine that today....

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." ~ Desmond Tutu

Two of them. Daddy got transferred a lot, and the packers and movers would show up and take over the house. Mother was unpacking the kitchen in a new house, carefully unwrapping each package, when one of the turtles dropped into her hand. Both of them were alive, although more than a little dehydrated and hungry. :)

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." ~ Desmond Tutu